The Consortium for Arab Democratic Sustainability (CADS) is an initiative spearheaded by Demos Tunisia. It is a network of independent democratising forces that engage in dialogue and deliberation on democratic sustainability. As a response to a regional imperative, the consortium is a forum to all those working toward democratic change and its sustainability to join forces, to share good practices, and diffuse a culture of democratic learning and unlearning. This is done in a manner that pays attention to regional specificity as one route to kickstart re-democratisation through peaceful, intellectual and civic channels. It is a platform and a space for pooling resources, sharing experiences, and exchanging future-oriented ideas among activists, practitioners, and academics invested in democratic sustainability. At the same time, the consortium aims for intra-regional and cross-regional learning and strategising among democratisation scholars, advocates, and civic activists. To this end, it plans to work with Toda Peace Institute’s Global Challenges to Democracy program, and the Democracy Lighthouse.

CADS was created in 2024 to promote a dialogue on democratic learning/unlearning, local democratisation practices and possible forms of cooperation. Another aim is to share the objective of creating Arab democratic learning communities and spaces. The autonomy and the freedom the member organisations uphold and value serve to promote exchanges, thus moving an Arab democratisation agenda forward.